NEWS

The 9th October our
colleague José Lidón Meseguer, also known as Pepe Lidón among his many friends,
died. I met Pepe when he was working as a Manager of Means of Payment of the
CAM. I collaborated with him in different projects, first from Computing
services and later from Auditing Computer services. We always had a good
relationship of friendship, comradeship and professional
collaboration.

When I took the retirement, my friend
Pepe Lidón telephoned me; he invited me to have lunch because he wanted to talk.
I told him that he didn’t have to invite for lunch, it would be enough to tell
me where did he usually had coffee –he was an addict– so, we met in a cafeteria
in La Rambla to
talk. We talked about our Association JubiCAM, the Spanish Federation and the
European Group, which he presided in that moment. We went to the office where he
did his business (an office inside JubiCAM) and he explained me all the things
he did. He asked me to collaborate with him and, he seemed to be so snowed under
with all the work that I could not say no. In this way I started a collaboration
with the European Group that lasts already more than 10
years.

I want to make clear that the Group has
been consolidated and has reached the current number of associated members and
sympathizers thanks to our second President Pepe Lidón. He was the soul and
promoter of the Euromeetings and, without this event, I do not believe that we
would have reached the present situation. He has always had a good relationship
with colleagues from Portugal, England, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Sweden; his
humanity, spirit of service, disposition to dialogue and negotiation, and, above
all, his generosity, were the qualities to make a lot of friends in the group of
retired of the European savings banks. The first Euromeeting took place in
ISDABE in May of 1996; in May of 1998 and during another Euromeeting held in the
same place, he assumed the presidency of the Group until April 2002, during the
Euromeeting of Peñíscola, when I had the honour to substitute him, being named
in that moment Honorary President of our Group.

I want to give to his whole family our
most heartfelt condolences. I want to tell them that our Honorary President will
always be present in our memories and hearts.